UFOMYST
CaseFireball2015

Santa Maria, CA, USA

Saw the first object on 07/21/2015 about 22:30 when I was leaving for work. The object flew from the western sky to the southern sky th

Report quality: Moderate55/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-07-22
Where
Santa Maria, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
34.953, -120.436 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-santa-maria-ca-2015-eba095
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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In context

  • This is one of 38 reports logged in Santa Maria, CA.
  • This case is one of 814 California reports filed in 2015.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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